I am someone who, contrary to most opinion here at FR, is sympathetic to Boehner’s position. I heard Rush ripping him today for saying “tax increases alone” aren’t the solution. My read on the situation is that Boehner is looking at political reality...Obamugabe, the Kenyan Clown, is occupying the Oval Office. He won by running for tax increases.

Of course, the election ALSO kept the House in the hands of the GOP...and the GOP ran on spending cuts.

So Boehner seems willing to concede BOTH wishes of the electorate: allowing for more revenue/tax increase (by the way, closing the loopholes is what Romney proposed) BUT also insisting that spending be cut.

Anyway, I know I’m off base here....these thoughts should be in a different thread. I just don’t think of Boehner as the same as Hagel...that was my point.

I'm not so sure about that. Rice is a very serious, intelligent and committed to the cause person. sKerry is a dufus. It will be a horrible thing to have a traitor as Sec State but he might not be able to do as much damage as someone with a brain who works hard.

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posted on 12/13/2012 1:40:17 PM PST
by TigersEye
(Who is John Galt?)

After the Civil War, when General Scholfield was made SoD (or War) he gave himself the Congressional MoH, while he, Sherman, and Grant rewrote the history of the conflict as a movie starring themselves and saying bad stuff about others.

Hopefully, I say hopefully, Kerry will do the same and give me and himself the MoH. I was valiant in action against the Germans during Vietnam. Every night, conducting patrols through Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, rousting tough and determined combattants (a few of whom were actually ...gasp ...men) out of one heavily fortified weinstube after another with no thought to my health or personal safety. Thank God we outnumbered them.

Finally, a SoD who will recognize my sacrifice. Talk PTSS, will you? I got it bad!

OK.OK. Forget the medal. I'll settle for a liver transplant, courtesy of the VA.

Susan Rice drops out of Secy of State contention——and not a moment too soon.

The buzz is she was adjusting her jock strap and going on Sunday TV talk to tell the nation that the WH’s Benghazi talking points included the tidbit that Pearl Harbor was sparked by a Charlie Chan movie.

This is a HUGE victory for conservatives, probably the first piece of good news since November 5. This proves that Obama is not GOD - that despite a solid Senate majority he cannot appoint complete idiots to Cabinet Level positions and expect them to sail through confirmation. This is worthy of a celebratory beverage!

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a letter to the editor about how she royally messed up the dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia, thanks to her misunderstanding of the situation and her friendship with the Ethiopian dictator. Result: thousands killed in an unnecessary war and the whole dispute still hasn't been resolved. This was a day or two after a column about how she mishandled the Sierre Leone civil war.

I predict that some non-establishment Democrat(s) will be able to wrest any attempt by Hitlery to take the nomination in 2016 using this same issue. She is in it up to her neck, and now that gun-running has been confirmed as part of the Benghazi situation, that will not play well with the lib activists.

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posted on 12/14/2012 1:40:50 PM PST
by AFPhys
((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))

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